M 6.1 in Papua New Guinea on 07 May 2020 11:21 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1216987
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 466.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.4543 , 154.7127
Event Date: 07 May 2020 11:21 UTC
07 May 2020 22:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 55000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2020 11:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70009bn4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 25 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

6.8 magnitude quake strikes in Indonesia's Banda Sea, no tsunami alertThu, 07 May 2020 10:56:00 +0200.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolted a remote part of eastern Indonesia late Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning issued and no immediate reports of damage. The undersea quake struck at a depth
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6.8 magnitude quake strikes in Indonesia's Banda Sea, no tsunami...Thu, 07 May 2020 08:43:00 +0200.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolted a remote part of eastern Indonesia late Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning issued and no immediate reports of damage. The undersea quake struck at a depth
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Papua's Central Mamberamo rattled by 5.0-magnitude quakeFri, 01 May 2020 06:59:00 +0200.

. 36 minutes ago Jakarta (ANTARA) - A magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolted Central Mamberamo in the easternmost Indonesian province of Papua on Friday morning, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). The epicent
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4 Terremoto de 6.3 se registra en Papua Nueva GuineaSat, 25 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0200.

Terremoto de 6.3 se registra en Papua Nueva Guinea Terremoto de 6.3 se registra en Papua Nueva Guinea por: Notimex - 25 Abril 2020, 12:04 pm. Puerto Moresby, 25 Abr (Notimex).- Un terremoto de magnitud 6.3 sacudió este sábado la isla de Bo
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),